Car-vestibule.



- No. 886,744. PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

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'CAR-VESTIBULE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 23, 1908. Serial No, 412,323.

To all whom it may concern? Be it known that I, LORENZO ULLO, a citizen of the United States, residin York city, in the county of New ork and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Car-Vestibules, of which the fo lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to doors for railway ears and the like, and its novelty consists in the construction and adaptation of the arts as will be more fully hereinafter pointe out.

It is ditficult,'in cases wherethe passengers are obliged to leave and enter from the same end of a railway car to induce them to avoid moving in conflictingcolumnsprto move rap.- idly either to leave or .enter the car. It is the pur ose of my invention to overcome this d' culty, and, in brief, I do so by ro viding the car vestibule with two doors olding inwardly so as to leave two openings in the side of the car body and providing also a transversely movablepartition of less width than the distance between the outer'edges of the foldin doors and the opposite side of the car, and which partitionis normally placed toward the o posite side of the car, but is so connected by means of suitable mechanism with the folding doors that when the partition is moved toward the center of the car it affords a barrier against passage at that point, but will ermita passage between itsv edge '0 posite t e open door and the other side the car, so that there is in eiiect formed two assage waysone nearest to Sthe body of the car, whereby the passengers body may readily leave the carand another on the other side of the open doors whereby they may readily enter and are guided past. the outer edge of the movable partition into the of the car. 3 Figure 1 is an elevation of the door and'the movable artition when the latter is in the center 0 the car. The car body being shown in section and the view being taken in front of the plane of the line 11 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the folding doors, the movable artition and their connections, the car body eing shown in section. Fi 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the mova le partition being shown in its normal position and the doors being closed. Fig. 4 is a detail taken in section on the plane of the line 44 in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, is-the body of the car at New .link 28 which is extended to form a vestibule in the usual manner. Depending from the roof 11 Patented May 5, 190 8 are hangers 12 sufpportinga rail 13 adapted to affor bearings formed in supporting plates 15 arranged in airs and secured-on o posite sides of a mova 1e partition 16 whicfiis ada ted freely to move to and fro asit is slid a 011g a track or the rollers 14 rotating in I the rail 13, the extent of its movement being limited by the osition of the hangers 12. The

upper edge of t is partition 1 6 is provided with two upwardly extending studs or pins "17 and 18 adapted to engage WIthfPIOjBOtlODS on the e V push rod hereinafterre rred to.

Arranged at the side of the ,car are two doors 20, each provided with a'lowerpivot 21 and an upper pivot 22 engaging suitable bearings in t e body of the car, so that each door will revolve on these pivots and the two doors togetherform a pair of folding doors opening inwardly intothe vestibule. Jambs 23 aii1tl24 are provided in the car body to engage thedoors 20 at their outer edges and partitions 25 and 26 are arranged to meet the doors at their inner edges in order to seal the openings closed thereby. Each door 20 is provided at its upper rear edge with a'rearwardly extending bracket 27 hinged to a The pivoted to a second link 29 which is downward to form a hook'adapted to co-- o erate with the stud 18 on'the artition 16. T e push bar 30 is also roviderfwith a projection 34 similarly a apted to cooperate with the stud 17 on the partition 16. Roller's 19 on each side of the push rod 30 andrevolvin in bearings in the frames 15 serve to kee t e parts in alinement.

. e method of using the device is as fol-- lows: Supposing the parts to be in the position shown in Fig. 3, it will be observed that the folding doors 20 are closed and the movable partition 16 is at the right hand side of the vestibule. I have designated the central space immediately to the left of the partition 16 by :r. The doorway adapted to be closed by one of the doors 20, as y; the doorway adapted to be closed by the other door 20, as 2, and the space opposite the partition 16,,as w. It wil be noted that whenthe parts are arranged, as shown in Fig. 3, the

space unto the left of the partition 16 is en.-'

tirely 1 free and the passengers can move through the center of the car from one ves the car, and through the levers 29 and 28 has caused each of the folding doors 20' to swing inwardly upon their respective pivots 21 and 22 to assume the positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3; that is, both doorways y and 2' which were previouslyclosed by these doors 20 are opened. The assengers moving toward the front part of thecar find the movable partition 16 immediatelyin front of them at w, closing the passageway to the next ad-. jacent car and right theirway-and-they naturally movetoward the left and out of the open doorway y. The incomin' passengers on the platform to the left of t e vestibule seeking to enter the car find their ingress blocked by the outgoing crowdand do not attempt to'enter the doorway y, but naturally enter the doorway 2 which is open, and

the readily and instinctively move through sai doorway into the vestibule in front of the doors 20 and the partition 16 andin the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2, and so through the space w into the car. The partition 16 is then moved again to the left by the guard and when the stud 18 'engages the hook 33' on the push rod 30 the lat-. ter is moved to the left and through the action of the links 28 and 29 thefol ing doors 20 are closed'by the time the" artition 16 reaches the end of its travel. t is obvious that this arran ement can be duplicated on the right side oi 'the car with a second partition 16 moving adjacent to the first one and that the operation of the parts will be reeisely the reverse of the parts whichhave oon described.

What I claim as new is:

1. The combination with the body of a railway car, or the like, of a movable partition, two doors, each adapted to close openings in the car bod and connections between the partition an the doors whereby the .movement of the partition willautomatically actuate the doors.

2. The combination with the body of a railway car, or the like, of a transverse movable partition, two doors adapted to close openings in thefbody nection between the partition and each door whereby the movement of the partition will automatically simultaneously open and close both doors.

' 3. The combination with the body of a railway car, or the like, of a partition norof the car, and a conconnections between mally placed so that it will not obstructthe center'of the ear, means for moving the partition, two doors adapted to close openings in the car body, and connections between the partition and both doors whereby when the.

its normal position I to the center of the car both doors are opened inwardl each si e of the artition;

5. .A car vesti ule rovided with a transverselyplaced movabl e partition, two folding mwardl mechanism door wheretoward the center of the car the doors are opened, and

doors a apted to open connecting the partition to eac by when the partition is moved when it is movedin the opposite direction they are closed.

6. A car vestibule provided with two folding doors rotating inwardly so that they are back to back when opened, a transversely the same I movable artition of substantiall Width as t e doors normally-place at the side of the car, means for moving the artition laterally, and connections between t tion and the doors wherebywhen the partition is moved to-the center'of the car the doors are automatically opened and a passa e way is left between the partition and of the car opposite the doors. I

h A car vestibule provided with two openings, a .door adapted to close each opening, supports on which the .doors are adapted to revolve, partition of less width than the distance etween the outer edges of the doors, when a transversely placed door whereby when the'p'artitionfi is moved to afford openings inthecar on;

e partithesi e a opened, and the opposite sideof the car, a

rail on which the partition is adapted to the movement of slide,,a rod actuated by the partition, and connections between the rod and the outer edge of each door whereby the doors are revolved' on 8. A carv vestibule openings, a door ada to their supports.

(provided with two to close each opening, suplports on whic the doors are ada ted to revo of less width than the distance between the outer edges of the doors, when 0 ened,.and the OPPQSltBSldB of the car, a mi on which ve, a transversely placed-partition the artition is adapted to slide, a rodactuate by the movement of the partition, and the rod and the outer whereby the doors are resupports', and means for edgeof each door volvcd on their tition.

car vestibule provided with a rail, a partition provided with rotating members limiting the extent of movement of the paradapted to move on said rail, a pair of doors In testimony whereof I afiix' my signature vertically hinged and adapted to fold inin presence of two Witnesses.

wardly a push-rod, jointed connections between the doors and the rod and projections LORENZO LLLO' on the rod adapted to engage with project NIT/11885682 tions on the partition to move the push rod HAROLD R. HOWE,

when the partition is moved. GODFREY M. LEBHAR. 

